Wisdom made a series of low-budget star-vehicle comedies for the Rank Organisation, beginning with Trouble in Store in 1953 This film earned him a BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Film in 1954 and exhibitors voted him the tenth biggest star at the British box office the same year. His films' cheerful, unpretentious appeal make them the direct descendants of those made a generation earlier by George Formby. Never highly thought of by the critics, they were very popular...